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Against some evil,
Some men pursue him with evil
Against the truth but,
With Love, fences are amended.
Who listens to this call !
The Truth
Men of God are many,
But true men of Christ are rare
As even my grand Pa
Was an eligible Man-of-God
Than some of these messengers
Who should be politic
But self crown they wear
That we derail for lack of 'good' example
And a truthful life; where are the seers?
The truth,
We are not fools
And our leaders are not making
Efforts to teach us, than confusion.
The patriots showcase confusions
Walking as if working for the populace
Rather are there ruining the Economy
of the populace
The Truthsayer,
May have learnt virtue
from polygamous descent
Challenging the odds of the Czar-less
That at the wake of doom,
No one could be a saint,
But they said his Witticism, is buffoonery?
But he saved his conscience, like the Ogoni Marxist
To be hounded out of the sin-full caliphate.
Soyinka, Osundare, Achebe
Voices the inhumane disadvantageous govt
But they're not heard;
But upon the givings of politics
He, the Truthsayer, couldn't compromise the evils
Than to say , a word, in writing, Peace
For sanctification of writer's conscience
So covetous to be free from evil
That this governance is of crack-pot
To avoid conflict in the stake
Upon that voice came up from the broad-road,
Which leads to destruction
He is now walking on the narrow-road,
which is so dank to trail on.
The kite still fly with the tortoise
A strange thing in the land,
When the doom will wake
the saint will be save from doom's reward,
But is it easy talking when devil is talking?
Who is next to say the truth
To the untrained millionaire farmer
Who feels proud with lack of knowledge?
The army General engineer
Now learning oratory skill
without the evolving of diphtongue
Rigging election he had PhD
Travelling from states to countries
without learning knowledge
The ones he learn
Are those of false advisers
Can the day be without sun?
The man ask the villagers
Who mop the kite carry the tortoise
The villagers gathered in dismay
while kite fly not far from their seeing
Is this not challenging?
Copyright 2005 Odimegwu Onwumere
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Odimegwu Onwumere
Odimegwu Onwumere, a poet and an author, is the Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State , Nigeria . +2348032552855. apoet25@yahoo.com
If it's prose, he writes stories,
If it's poetry, he writes poems,
If it's drama, he writes screenplays,
And he has achieved some poetry nominations, in the USA and in Canada. He was born in Accra Ghana. A Nigerian by origin and is in his early thirties.
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